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GREENSBORO, N.C. – A Greensboro College student’s paper on Islam won a best-paper award at a regional history conference April 14. Alla Alaghbri, a junior history and religion major from High Point, N.C., won best paper in the session “Intellectual and Religious History of the Near East and Islamic World” at the 2018 Phi Alpha……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College’s chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, the international educational honor society, inducted 12 new members April 15. They are: Kaitlin Fraley, a senior English Education major from Trinity, N.C. Erica Francisco, an M.Ed./Licensure Plus student from Greensboro, N.C. Alannah Haggerty, a senior health/physical education major from Raleigh, N.C. Charity Hamilton, a……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Sheila Nayar, a professor of English and Communication Studies at Greensboro College, has published an essay examining how 17th-century chivalric romance increasingly embraced the so-called gunpower revolution then going on in England. The essay, “Arms or the Man II: Epic, Romance, and Ordnance in Seventeenth-Century England,” appears in the most recent issue……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College welcomes two alumni back to campus as speakers for the college’s upcoming Baccalaureate/Cap and Gown and Commencement ceremonies. The Baccalaureate speaker will be the Rev. Timothy Moore ’96, director of donor development at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Charlotte, an approved United Methodist seminary affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA). His……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College’s chapter of the national cross-disciplinary honor society Alpha Chi has inducted nine new members. They are: Tesla Chapman, a senior music major from Randleman, N.C. Hannah Clayton, a junior athletic training major from Fuquay-Varina, N.C. Timothy Crowell, a junior psychology and English & Communication Studies major from Pinnacle, N.C. Kelvina……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College’s chapters of two academic honor societies whose subjects are housed in the School of Humanities have inducted new members. Phi Alpha Theta, the history honor society, inducted: Alla Ahmed Alaghbri, a junior history and religion major from High Point, N.C. Ryan John Cole, a senior elementary-education major from Bay Shore,……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College art major Morgan Staley presents his senior art exhibition, “Priceless Embodiment,” April 26-May 11, in the Anne Rudd Galyon Gallery in Cowan Humanities Building on campus. The exhibition opens with a reception, 3-5 p.m. Thursday, April 26, at which the public may discuss with Staley how his thought process led……

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Three Greensboro College professors were honored with teaching awards April 6 during the college’s annual Alumni Awards and Student Investiture Program. Ashley Hyers, assistant professor of theatre and dance, received the Virginia Clarke Gray ’42 award. It is presented annually to recognize an exemplary faculty member who has taught full-time at a……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Three Greensboro College alumni received awards from the college’s Alumni Association during the college’s Alumni Awards and Student Investiture Program April 6. Karen Anzola ’86 received the Distinguished Alumni Award. She was honored not only for her service on the Alumni Board, including as president, but also for her volunteer leadership positions……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College presents its Annual Spring Showcase Day, in which students offer presentations and performances of what they have studied this semester, on Thursday, April 26. The college holds such showcases of student scholarship near the end of each semester to celebrate student research, creativity and application, sharing the work with the……